__GFP_WRITE will be tested in vmscan to find out the write tasks.
For good interactive performance, we try to focus dirty reclaim waits on
them and avoid blocking unrelated tasks.
Signed-off-by: Fengguang Wu <fengguang.wu@xxxxxxxxx>
---
include/linux/gfp.h | 2 +-
mm/filemap.c | 13 +++++++------
2 files changed, 8 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)
--- linux.orig/include/linux/gfp.h 2012-02-28 10:22:24.000000000 +0800
+++ linux/include/linux/gfp.h 2012-02-28 10:22:42.936316697 +0800
@@ -129,7 +129,7 @@ struct vm_area_struct;
/* Control page allocator reclaim behavior */
#define GFP_RECLAIM_MASK (__GFP_WAIT|__GFP_HIGH|__GFP_IO|__GFP_FS|\
__GFP_NOWARN|__GFP_REPEAT|__GFP_NOFAIL|\
- __GFP_NORETRY|__GFP_NOMEMALLOC)
+ __GFP_NORETRY|__GFP_NOMEMALLOC|__GFP_WRITE)
/* Control slab gfp mask during early boot */
#define GFP_BOOT_MASK (__GFP_BITS_MASK & ~(__GFP_WAIT|__GFP_IO|__GFP_FS))
--- linux.orig/mm/filemap.c 2012-02-28 10:22:25.000000000 +0800
+++ linux/mm/filemap.c 2012-02-28 10:24:12.320318821 +0800
@@ -2340,21 +2340,22 @@ struct page *grab_cache_page_write_begin
int status;
gfp_t gfp_mask;
struct page *page;
- gfp_t gfp_notmask = 0;
+ gfp_t lru_gfp_mask = GFP_KERNEL | __GFP_WRITE;
gfp_mask = mapping_gfp_mask(mapping) | __GFP_WRITE;
- if (flags & AOP_FLAG_NOFS)
- gfp_notmask = __GFP_FS;
+ if (flags & AOP_FLAG_NOFS) {
+ gfp_mask &= ~__GFP_FS;
+ lru_gfp_mask &= ~__GFP_FS;
+ }
repeat:
page = find_lock_page(mapping, index);
if (page)
goto found;
- page = __page_cache_alloc(gfp_mask & ~gfp_notmask);
+ page = __page_cache_alloc(gfp_mask);
if (!page)
return NULL;
- status = add_to_page_cache_lru(page, mapping, index,
- GFP_KERNEL & ~gfp_notmask);
+ status = add_to_page_cache_lru(page, mapping, index, lru_gfp_mask);
if (unlikely(status)) {
page_cache_release(page);
if (status == -EEXIST)
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